ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the question of contemporary human and natural rights issues and concerns pertaining to Africa and the globe in the new millennium, particularly in the wake of the imposition of Western European globalization and imperialism, utilizing an Indigenous African philosophical and cultural framework. It explores issues of human rights, with particular regard to women, children, workers, and the poor, with special relevance to the situation of human rights in Africa. The chapter elucidates the intrinsic dimension of ecological and environmental rights and needs. Indigenous peoples were and are seen as part of the 'savage wilderness' requiring 'domestication' and 'civilizing' by European humanity. Human rights in African societies were, and are, an intrinsic element of Indigenous cultural and moral values. Rights are thus those human qualities and conditions which are struggled for, earned and possessed by the people, particularly those from the marginalized sectors and working classes.
